a new study puts a damper on the you arsons on to assad claims the sidelines chairs chemical at a time that washington blamed on the regime could have never been launched from government controlled areas. russian officials a bunch of behind the barbed wire at america's notorious gone tunnel bay prison where more than a dozen detainees are reportedly being force fed i mean i'm going to strike. on the massive data collection on americans and foreigners around the globe will be kept in place indefinitely as president obama is criticized for a lot of action following his speech on the n.s.a.'s practices.

this is an international coming to life for most co hello and welcome to the program. a new study by the massachusetts institute of technology has challenge the white house's claims against the syrian government the authors of the reports say the chemical attack in the ghouta suburb of damascus last august couldn't have been launched from government controlled areas and. is it joining us now live. or do we know. well this report is the result of almost three months of investigating of researching whether the missiles carrying sarin gas in syria on august the twenty first twenty thirteen were launched from the government or part of damascus now we made an exact copy of the map which was used by the u.s. intelligence when they voiced their concerns that the rockets were fired from this area from the area controlled by the government forces the area in damascus well

this is the area controlled by the opposition and you can see those blinking yellow spots over there these are the areas which were hit by this area and gas the essence of this report is that the researchers say that the rockets could not have been fired from the area controlled by the government simply because those rockets were out of range the western most point the area which was hit very badly by the sarin attack is almost four kilometers from the eastern most point of the areas controlled by the government and those rockets their maximum range according to the investigators according to the researchers was only two kilometers and if we take the heart of the area controlled by the government forces something mentioned by the u.s. state secretary john kerry in his report this is around nine eight to nine kilometers from the points from the areas affected by the sarin attack there were also some

areas in western good in the west and go to area which were reportedly also affected by this sarin attack but the u.n. investigators did not reveal any environmental proved. of the sarin gas actually being fired against these territories so basically in a nutshell those rockets could only been fired according to those researches from inside this area circled in red line we spoke to one of the authors of this report and here is what he had to say so we went through two to three months worth of study to determine the types of rockets. the weight the size of the propellant and we determine that the range is on the order of two kilometers i like to make a note that the u.n. also had come up with a range of approximately two kilometers so this is very confusing to us in our studies and we're trying to understand exactly what the white house map means

because right now as it stands these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory they would be fired more from a rebel type of territory or a border of a contested territory it is worth mentioning also that this report does not attribute any blame to any of the sides in this conflict what it does though it sticks another boot to the accuracy of the u.s. intelligence at some point even speculates that president obama could have used what increasingly seems like a very inaccurate information from the u.s. intelligence as a pretext for a military invasion of syria in a similar fashion as a threat in the report to what george w. bush did with iraq the official washington has not yet responded to this new latest report and it's a thank you very much indeed for that report and he's an excellent. thank you. they

may be unresolved questions of a serious chemical our tongues but there's little doubt that the country is becoming a center of drug production with most economic activity practically nonexistent coupled with the proliferation of armed groups the business is a ripening quickly let's now take a look and according to a recent a reuters report syria has become a major drug exporter and consumer and the last few years and outlawed stimulant known as camp to go on is now produced in huge amounts it's so profitable the countries replace the lebanon as the main producer which saw a ninety percent fall in production in the last two years lebanese officials also seized over twelve million pills of the drug last year and the trends affecting other states turkish authorities seized seven million pills made in syria which were under two saudi arabia maria if an ocean has more details for us was theory about entering its fourth devastating year of war the lack of law and structure has

allowed one dark industry to flourish the country has become the number one producer of a drug known as captain gone since the synthetic stimulant was first manufactured in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was at that time used as a medicine to treat to beauty and depression but it's too addictive and this is why it was banned in most countries so here in the middle east it's still very popular it's cheap and it's easy to get but today syria not only produces more than any other country in the region but it's also kept to go as main consumers believe that fighters are taking these pills to maintain vigorous energy levels your lengthy battles because it helps you keep awake for hours and hours but there are also reports that ordinary citizens those who've been living in depression and in this war and for almost three years now are also. coding to the drug

for these k. placed euphoria. stem and it's lucrative it's between fifteen and twenty doors appeal and the raw hundreds of millions of them have been taking all trafficked and there is evidence that the revenue raised is buying weapons from both sides of the syrian conflict the un office on drugs and crime. has been grateful to him but syria which is located at the crossroads here in the region has for a long time been a transit point for the drug going from europe to turkey and lebanon on but since the war began to guns trades gone to mastic and factories are appearing these days all across syria and production has increased and sales of building here elaborate on the authorities seized around two hundred million dollars worth of tablets last year mostly hidden in the tracks going through the syrian lebanese

border from syria and iran where you. find that you need these in the gulf countries of the most ardent supporters of the syrian opposition and saudi arabia where around a billion dollars worth of the drug was seized just last year with authorities saying this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug in the kingdom. and so the pan-african newswire of a only as a key way believes the drunk's trade will only fuel the a protracted syrian conflict even more. i think it should be investigated we've seen the relationship between illicit drugs very addictive substances and imperialist war as the rebels lose more and more ground as the syrian government and the syrian military gains more territory the degree to which they stabilize the country even further the resources that are coming into syria from the western

countries and from the countries that have allied with the west in the middle east this is going to of course make the rebels even more desperate and their supporters even more desperate to raise funds in order to finance them so i think this is a reflection of the failure over the last three years of this u.s. and nato financed or rather war by there's been leveled against the people of syria it's caused a tremendous amount of deaths injuries dislocation and now of course drug distribution and addiction as well in the meantime there's still no unity in the ranks of the syrian opposition of the geneva two peace conference fast approaching a divide it syrian national coalition has been convening ent ok but despite present affronts proposal of a ceasefire in the second largest city of aleppo and a prison exchange coupled with extensive pressure from the west that's been no decision on whether b. f. and c. will attend the peace talks the coalition's main blank had previously threatens to

boy cold cheney betty and many of the members have already pulled down. a delegation from moscow trying to secure the release of a russian citizen has been held without charge and gone tunnel bay for more than a decade the russian official are also officials are also looking into the ongoing hunger strike and the force feeding up detainees at the u.s. military facility to say churkin and now reports. for the first time in twelve years a russian delegation spearheaded by the foreign ministry special representative for human rights got access to visit the guantanamo detention camp the goal meeting with the sole russian prisoner in gaza of held there without charge for a decade and taking steps to push for the detainees returned to his homeland we spoke to the top diplomat of the visiting delegation to get the details when you move government is looking pretty significant churches they gave their lives at the

pew. but you still you employ illegal q basic rates because. they are so good little break you know. you prove you know there is no proper litigation. the access to where we have been given an opportunity to cool a little bit differently but we've got to look beautiful most likely all the details putting extra pressure on the us to shut down the scandalous camp was also on the agenda of the foreign ministry the prison has been staining america's human rights and legal record both at home and abroad for years leaving the detainees staring really into the abyss of indefinite detention and just last week the world saw the twelfth anniversary of the first detainees of the world of the war on terror being brought to the scandalous prison camp which obama made a promise to close on day one at the white house last year the world's attention was returned to one tunnel as the majority of the prisoner population was on

a hunger strike for over six months making world headlines and really forcing the obama administration to refocus his attention at least on words for now to the detention camp although plenty of bureaucratic and political reasons continue to be used as an excuse instead of just shutting the place down when we visited guantanamo three months ago we found out that at least fifteen detainees work continuously being force fed before it's passed on the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is an agent. area or if they want of will to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the world you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will describe which nostril they want about other

aspects of prisoner life however there was a lot of secrecy we were taken on a largely staged and prepared to or around the prison facilities without being able to see much of the real conditions that the prisoners live in and speaking to any of them was of course out of the question let alone seeing them one or two of them actually for more than a minute a lot of secrecy and a routine tour around the premises also turned out to be the experience of the russian delegation as well and as they said you're going to r.t. new york you always with a gun tunneling detainees claim the number of hunger strikers at the prison has gone up in the last month and now stands at thirty three but the u.s. military which runs the facility has refused to release any updates the official excuse is that the figures are no longer relevant to quote important issues like the well being of the prisoners and the security of american personnel that was park with clive stafford smith who advocates for several of the detainees there he claims the u.s. military is using some painful tactics to try and break up the hunger strike. if

a prisoner on from camp six which is the least count goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just to count five but to count five record which really has been the most abused to place an order on ton of prisoners are held in all steel cell and denied the most basic human rights just as a punishment for going on strike the force feeding techniques are very much an option unfortunately against the very abusive force feeding techniques on the casting aside the question of whether it's not the culture course we toured in the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they're using ground tunnel groups sure it's just income search for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but use up the prisoners knows it's the it's much still throwing those tubes out every single one tries forcing them back out each time they're still forcing frosty much too quickly into the

prisoner making prison sick if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous what's not. thousands of skilled professionals have been fleeing the us and newest men but. when i look at what's driving the exodus and whether the government's capable of bending they must population decrease that's just ahead of right. there's immediately law so we leave that maybe. by the same motions so you're.

right your party there's a. question is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politicking only on r t. this is all seem to national welcome back the invasive data collection by the n.s.a. the explosion which sent a shock waves around the globe but will continue indefinitely the move was outlined

cheering barack obama's speech on the operations of the intelligence agency which introduced a number of reforms yet as many say failed to taco major privacy issues i'll say sound sax now reports after nearly seven months of n.s.a. disclosures president obama finally came forward with reforms to the spy agency acknowledging that the current capabilities of the usa do leave open the possibility of abuse given the unique power of the state it is not enough for leaders to say trust us we want to be used the data we collect for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. our such a system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power the president address the n.s.a.'s most controversial program section two fifteen bulk telephone metadata collection basically the president no longer wants the government to be in control of these massive metadata databases but that doesn't mean the president wants to get rid of bulk collection in fact the bulk collection of virtually every american is metadata

will continue indefinitely and the new restrictions announced by the president requiring the n.s.a. to obtain pfizer court approval before searching all that metadata doesn't satisfy privacy advocates who argue the pfizer court has acted and will continue to act as a rubber stamp nothing in obama's speech put any rain rain dan this collected all approach and yesterday that there was a big revelation of god called this fire program that just fire program was collecting all tax calls literally hundreds of thousands of text calls every day are going into the n.s.a.'s vacuum it's gigantic danny cooper regarding spying on foreign leaders the president said he's put an end to surveillance on friends and allies but did not say the n.s.a. will stop spying on diplomats nothing about the n.s.a. breaking encryption standards and ports that the n.s.a. has been breaking into the data links on google and yahoo servers while some

specific reforms were introduced how exactly they will be implemented moving forward remains to be seen especially since the same government agencies that have overseen the massive growth of the surveillance state are now the ones tasked with reining it in in washington d.c. same sex are to. and michael cohen president and general counsel for the nationalists the center says major issues and one of the loops in the president's speech the real thing that the american people are looking for is what are you going to do when you have a whistleblower like mr snowden who has critical information that the american people have a right to know he did not address that issue it's being swept under the rug instead i think in a fair view of what's going on it is merely window dressing covering up the abuses that have been identified who's to say there are a lot more abuses have occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a.

whistleblower to make their allegations public or known in any way so. at best it's window dressing it's punts a lot to congress to try to fix the problem and it addresses in no way how the american people have a right to understand the abuses of our government. russia's national counter-terror committee says seven militants including the leader when armed gang how then killed the operation that began in the morning in russia suddenly republic of dagestan is reported to be over now security forces have been negotiating with the militants in a house they have been holed up in however the armed group tried to break through cordons twice which led to a shootout one of those killed was the widow of a bonded who was said to be preparing for suicide it's hot it's believed some of the militants were behind friday's grenade launcher time on a restaurant followed by twin blasts that injured at least sixteen people. and elsewhere around love this song

a russian citizen was among twenty one people killed in a suicide attack in the are going counter so all three u.n. workers and a representative from the international monetary fund were also among the dead one bomber blew himself up at a restaurant popular with i'm going to fish holes and diplomats the interior ministry says guns killed two other gunmen who tried to storm the venue the town of us claimed responsibility for the time. it is clashed with police in these punish capital madrid houses had gathered in solidarity with dance traitors in the northern city of burgos and west bad erupted over plans to revamp its trade which locals claim is always to be limited resources solidarity riots have been reported across the country forcing the mayor of gets to the culture. and humanitarian affairs mission reports israeli acts hikes on the west bank palestinians increased zero fall for that decade thousand one hundred times on

palestinians were carried out by israel in the past eighty is more bob the threats local settlers experience daily on our website. and also online and italian senior member of the international olympic committee she calls america's decision to send. openly gay athletes to the winter games in a sultry political explosion tell the full story get a four star rather on our website. write the scene. first. and i would think that your. orders would. be in the.

us as nearest and poorest man by lottery and maybe europe's falses growing economy but its population has been spoiling the sun biles and those leaving the country are blaming government negligence. called cost while. so gay is one of thousands of workers who will leave latvia this year but his destination is perhaps surprising he'll be leaving this e.u. state to work in azerbaijan says the loss of life is always hard but in this country it's harder as the government is much more concerned by politics not economics and the life of the common man so they isn't the only one the world bank says not because population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year. i feel i'm not alone the government are squeezing everybody wants and more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve not because population fell by around ten percent in

a country of only two million people this decline is sharply felt especially since those leaving a mostly of working age. the major work force males from twenty to forty go and find jobs abroad and then move their families over this leave just older people this demographic shift poses significant economic challenges which the government says it's keen to try and tackle but if you just there is a government program to return people to that fear but it doesn't work yet they pay for people to return but there's still no work for them the only way out is to create new jobs and a suitable atmosphere for investment but it isn't happening and over the next twenty years the population will decrease another third. so as leaders desperately try to arrest the worrying trend the message from at least one of those with banks part for a better life elsewhere is simple that it's going to see the government has to stop its aggressive social policies and lower taxes so that people can live where not simply survive. who's got ot not via. the mounting

counter base pain of mainstream means that just. the majority of congress are now millionaires for the first time in history according to the center for responsive politics which sounds pretty insulting when the average american is not doing so well financially this seems bad like a bunch of rich guys rule the country which they kind of do but one could argue that congress isn't rich enough first off due to inflation a billion dollars is not as much as it used to be especially the cost of a campaign to get in the congress costs around one million six hundred thousand dollars so yeah a million dollars of net worth may sound pretty rich to you or me but the expensive game of us politics these guys can't even afford the costs related to getting a work electoral campaigns are

a big money affair so it is no surprise that people like you are me can't get into the law making business without selling at least a little piece of our souls to someone who has very deep pockets so again the problem isn't that congressmen are wealthy it is that many of them have to get constant financing in order to maintain their positions and as you average folks know once you're in debt they've got you by the throat well that's just my opinion . millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone offers us. lifetime food supply no charge. very strong against g.m.o. and we think that. the free products are. there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering

when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap. for free. enterprise is profit. for social justice golden rice. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out.

the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were empty. in november the. warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people are eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. live it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct treat all. very sheltered and everyone was buried underneath. all of them with dead.

happy friday people i'm having martin and this is breaking so we all know that the intelligence community would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden in parade him around in front of the world as an example of what happens to whistleblowers in this country what i didn't know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a. analyst told the website that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment wait a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that he were.